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The Lawfare Podcast

The Lawfare Institute

The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfaremedia.org.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:11:00

Lawfare Daily: David Noll on Civil Contempt Against a...

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2025/07/15

Alan Rozenshtein, Senior Editor and Research Director atLawfare, sits down with David Noll, a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, to discuss his newLawfareResearch Report,“Civil Contempt Against a Defiant Executive.”They talk about the widespread assumption that the judiciary is powerless if the executive branch chooses to defy court orders, largely because enforcement mechanisms like the U.S. Marshals Service reside within the executive branch.Noll argues that this view is mistaken and

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1:47:14

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/07/14

In alive conversation onJuly 11,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareSenior Editors Scott Anderson, Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling inTrump v. AFGE,which allows for the mass terminations of federal employees, what happened in the multiple hearings in the criminal and civil cases involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a nationwide injunction on President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, and more.Support this show

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50:40

Lawfare Archive: Julian Mortenson on 'The Executive...

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2025/07/13

From April 12, 2019: Julian Mortenson, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, is the author of a remarkable new article entitled "Article II Vests Executive Power, Not the Royal Prerogative," forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review andavailableon SSRN.Recently, Benjamin Wittes spoke with the professor about the article, which Mortenson has been working on for years—as long as the two have known each other. The article explores the history of exactly three words of the U.S. Constitution—the

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41:56

Lawfare Archive: Juliette Kayyem on the Baltimore...

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2025/07/12

From April 9, 2024: In the early morning on March 26, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge collapsed, resulting in the death of six of the eight individuals conducting maintenance on the bridge. The incident has disrupted commuter traffic and the transport of hazardous materials, and it has halted shipping traffic at the Port of Baltimore, among other effects.LawfareResearch Fellow Matt Gluck discussed the bridge’s collapse, how authorities

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58:43

Lawfare Daily: Bribery and the Second Trump...

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2025/07/11

John Keller, now a partner at Walden, Macht, Haran, & Williams, channeled his experience as the former chief of the Public Integrity Section at the Department of Justice to talk about bribery with James Pearce, Lawfare Legal Fellow.After explaining the basics of bribery law and whether a current or former president could face a bribery prosecution, Keller analyzed whether three episodes from the first six months of the second Trump administration could plausibly be characterized as bribery:

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39:02

Lawfare Daily, Bonus Edition: Unpacking the July 7...

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2025/07/10

On July 8, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down for a bonus edition of Lawfare Live with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss Kilmar Abrego Garcia's July 7 hearing in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter atwww.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also supportLawfareby making a one-time donation athttps://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast

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1:06:21

Scaling Laws: Ethan Mollick: Navigating the...

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2025/07/10

Ethan Mollick, Professor of Management and author of the “One Useful Thing”Substack, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, and Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor at Minnesota Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to analyze the latest research in AI adoption, specifically its use by professionals and educators. The trio also analyze the trajectory of AI development and related, ongoing policy discussions.More

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1:15:30

Rational Security: The “Game Changers” Edition

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2025/07/09

This week, Scott sat down with fellow Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Alan Rozenshtein to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:“One Bill to rule them all, One Bill to find them, One Bill to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” Republicans in Congress narrowly enacted President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” last week, just in advance of the July 4 deadline he had set early in the year. What will its contents mean for elements of Trump’s national security

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55:44

Lawfare Daily: The Double Black Box: Ashley Deeks on...

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2025/07/09

Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein sits down with Ashley Deeks, the Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, to discuss her new book,“The Double Black Box: National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and the Struggle for Democratic Accountability.”They talk about the core metaphor of the book: the idea that the use of artificial intelligence in the national security space creates a "double black box." The first box is the traditional

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53:22

Lawfare Daily: Michael Feinberg on Leaving the FBI

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2025/07/08

Until late May, Michael Feinberg was a senior FBI counterintelligence agent focused on China. All that changed one weekend, when the Deputy FBI Director found out that he was still friends with a former FBI official who had been fired years ago. In his first interview following his essay, “Goodbye to All That,” in Lawfare last week. Feinberg sat down with Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss his career, his resignation, and the climate inside the Bureau.To receive ad-free podcasts,

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40:19

Lawfare Daily: The Offensive Cyber Industry and...

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2025/07/07

Winnona Bernsen, nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and founder ofDistrictCon, joinsLawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman to discuss her recently released report"Crash (Exploit) and Burn: Securing the Offensive Cyber Supply Chain to Counter China in Cyberspace." They discuss the offensive cyber industry, the private sector and individual players, and the government procurement pipelines in the United States and China. They also discuss the strengths and

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1:40:22

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/07/06

In a live conversation on July 3,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareLegal Fellow James Pearce andLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss updates in the civil and criminal cases of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a D.C. district court judge's injunction against the Trump administration’s invasion proclamation, attacks on law firms, and more.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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43:54

Lawfare Archive: Itsiq Benizri on the EU AI Act

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2025/07/05

From February 16, 2024: The EU has finally agreed to its AI Act. Despite the political agreement reached in December 2023, some nations maintained some reservations about the text, making it uncertain whether there was a final agreement or not. They recently reached an agreement on the technical text, moving the process closer to a successful conclusion. The challenge now will be effective implementation.To discuss the act and its implications,LawfareFellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia

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49:42

Lawfare Archive: Mike Johnson’s National Security Agenda

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2025/07/04

From November 7, 2023: You probably already know that Rep. Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House. What you may not know is that every single one of the issues on his plate is a national security issue, at least in the short term.LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareSenior Editor and Brookings Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds to talk it all through. They talked about Israel aid, Ukraine aid, Taiwan assistance, the border, FISA Section 702, government shutdowns, and more. It's

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51:41

Lawfare Daily: Teun Janssen on Ukraine and a Big Europe

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2025/07/03

Teun Jansenn is a staff member at the European Parliament who works on issues of EU expansion and support for Ukraine. He joined Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk about the prospects of Europe's stepping up for Ukraine as the United States backs away. He also talked about why EU enlargement is essential to getting EU governance under control and the role that Ukraine might play in that process.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter atwww.patreon.com/lawfare. You can

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43:10

Lawfare Daily: Civil-Military Relations in the Trump...

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2025/07/02

For today's episode,LawfareForeign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewsLindsay Cohn, an associate professor at the Naval War College and Columbia University, to discuss the Trump administration's handling of the U.S. military. Cohn discusses the firings of senior military officials, military parades, and the use of the U.S. military at the U.S-Mexico border and in Los Angeles. She also assesses which policies are of genuine concern and which are overstated.To receive ad-free podcasts, become

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43:38

Lawfare Daily: Prosecuting the Sahel's War...

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2025/07/01

On today’s episode,LawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Lindsay Freeman, Director of Technology, Law & Policy at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, to discussher recentLawfarearticle, “War Crimes for Fun and Profit.”They talk about how and why so-called war influencers linked to private military companies such as the Wagner Group in the Sahel areposting “conflict content” online. They also address why this graphic and gory content, which often amounts to

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1:51:09

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/06/30

In alive conversation onJune 27,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareLegal Fellow James Pearce andLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling on nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship case, the whistleblower complaint about Emil Bove’s actions as deputy attorney general, the disbarment of Kenneth Chesebro, ongoing litigation over the federalization of the California National Guard, and so much more.Support this show

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54:35

Lawfare Archive: Steve Vladeck on Emergency Powers...

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2025/06/29

From March 19, 2020: What can the president do in a national emergency? What limits what the president can do? What authorizes the president to do all those things he can do in a national emergency? Is the president abusing, misusing, using appropriately, or under-using emergency powers during the coronavirus crisis? And what are the logical end points for how far this could go? For this bonus edition, Benjamin Wittes got on the phone with Steve Vladeck to work through these questions and talk about

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27:09

Lawfare Archive: Natan Sachs on Israeli Anti-solutionism

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2025/06/28

From December 5, 2015: The show this week featuresNatan Sachs, a Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, who recentlypublished an articleinForeign Affairson anti-solutionism as strategy in the Israel-Palestine conflict.During his conversation withLawfareEditor-in-Chief Ben Wittes, Sachs argues that the apparent absence of a long-term strategy on the Israeli Right for dealing with the Palestinians is actually better described as a belief on the part of the Israeli Right that there are

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